August 07, 2009 03:06 AM UTC

Fort Collins thrust into debate over Pelosi's swastika claims

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• by: BobMoore

(Clearly, they’ve never met “Swastika Guy” – promoted by Colorado Pols)

The conservative blogosphere has been going after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi this week over her claim that health-care reform opponents are “carrying swastikas and symbols like that to a town meeting on health care.” An example here:

http://wizbangblog.com/content…

Responding to the “where’s the proof” cries from the right, the other side responded today with a picture from last week’s Tea Party protest in Fort Collins. Here’s Sam Stein at the Huffington Post:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/…

Who knows if Pelosi was referencing the Fort Collins protest or not. I don’t think the picture in the HuffPost blog started circulating until after Pelosi’s remarks, but I could be mistaken.

Also, if you read the linked post above from wizbangblog, you’ll see the suggestion that the photo was faked. I can give eyeball witness testimony that the photo and sign are genuine. Protest organizer Ray Harvey can do the same.

More details on this at my Coloradoan blog:

http://tr.im/vO1v

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